Euseb. 1. vi. c. 39. Cyprian. Epistol. 55. The see of
Rome remained vacant from the martyrdom of Fabianus, the
20th of January, A.D. 250, till the election of Cornelius,
the 4th of June, A.D. 251. Decius had probably left Rome,
since he was killed before the end of that year.